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Job seeking can often be a psychologically draining exercise, particularly if you’ve been ‘on the hunt’ for a while and/or you’re dealing with multiple knockbacks. Professional, impactful career documentation is no doubt going to help you to stand out among the often large amount of job applicants. Particularly if you have a clear job seeking […]

On average, you have 6 seconds to convince a recruiter that your application is worth pursuing. It’s therefore essential to immediately and effectively ‘sell’ your career offerings in your resume and other career documentation (including your cover letter and LinkedIn profile). If we also factor in the Jobvite 2017 Recruiting Funnel Benchmark Report’s finding that […]

As with other social media platforms, Linkedin is primarily a channel for engaging with others – from a professional viewpoint. And the main way to professionally interact on LinkedIn is via connections – including from a branding perspective. Recent research by US-based Fast Company identified a minimum of 30 LinkedIn connections as essential to kick-start […]

While the COVID-19 crisis has no doubt put some businesses and workers on job hold, there are still career opportunities out there. Despite alarming rates of unemployment reported in the media, the Australian Bureau of Statistics recently cited a slight increase in nationwide employment (up by 0.9% between June and July 2020). Furthermore, a recent […]

As I’ve touched on in a previous blog, there are some clear differences between your resume and your LinkedIn profile, including their main purpose. To truly optimise your LinkedIn profile, both for networking and job seeking, it’s important to remember this is more of a personal branding and marketing tool than your resume. I wrote […]

While most of the more confident and extroverted thrive in professional networking and interacting situations (including interviews), there are some of us that struggle. The thought of attending a business networking event with teems of attendees can be pretty overwhelming to those that aren’t so outgoing. And then there’s the daunting prospect of initiating phone […]

So you’ve gotten over the first major hurdle of making it to interview stage, via your professionally written career documentation. Now it’s time to consider the next one – attending the interview. It’s a scary prospect for most of us. But if you go prepared, the job interview jitters are far less likely to disrupt […]

Most job seekers know how demoralising and disenchanting it can be to send out a multitude of applications without any responses. COVID-19 is no doubt exacerbating this situation, further intensified by media forecasts of local economies including employment rates taking a significant battering. So now more than ever, it’s essential to keep yourself ambitious and […]

Just about all companies and industries have internal policies and protocols, as well as external standards and regulations that they must adhere to. As noted in my earlier blog on the most common transferrable skills, showcasing your ability to align with a business’s regulatory compliance conditions will be highly career beneficial. Defined as ‘the action […]

Even if you don’t want to be designated as a ‘project manager’, project management capabilities are valuable to most employers. That’s why I’ve listed it as one of the most common transferrable skills. Often used to transform ideas into reality, project management has been recognised by the global Project Management Institute (PMI) as a skill […]